Monthly Archives: April, 2021

On their expansive album "Solid Ground", Steve and Dolapo construct an audacious sanctuary out of pure, unvarnished hope. Together, Dolapo Oladejo and Steve Petrinko draw upon sixty years of shared choral discipline and vast multi-instrumental instincts, assembling a kaleidoscopic sound that refuses to settle into an easy category. They treat the modern pop spectrum as an expansive canvas where heavy burdens are acknowledged, dissected,...

With their fiery new melodic rock single “When Love Walks In,” the Jimi Bennett Band make a brazen case for emotional surrender. There is a stubborn kind of pride in nursing private wounds, stacking up defensive barriers until we mistake a bunker for a home. Here, the seasoned trio stages a joyful breach of that isolation. https://open.spotify.com/album/1gJtVCNQ9rxAUTzXw34UCW?si=4fcef9e3d18c4b41 The track establishes a steady, controlled rhythmic foundation before...